title: [Fatalities in west Austrian prisons].
abstract: The purpose of this study is to review 23 causes of death that have occurred in Western-Austrian prisons from 1974 to 1989. The majority of them (11 cases) were due to suicides. Among 9 cases of natural death there was a 25 years old man, who died of an unknown purulent meningoencephalitis. Two drunken prisoners had not been supervised and therefore died of alcohol poisoning. In one case the police jail physician did not recognize an epidural hematoma.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Gerichtliche Medizin der Universität Innsbruck.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ambach
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Rabl
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tributsch
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000401:mortality; D002423:Cause of Death; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006407:Hematoma, Epidural, Cranial / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011329:Prisoners; D013405:Suicide
vernacular_title: Todesfälle in westösterreichischen Haftanstalten.